FEB 17

2026

Tuesday: woke up just early enough to do a tiny bit of work on my interactive fiction project, but then it was off to the races at work as usual. On my first break, I snoozed in the newly-remade office bed with John. Lunch was my usual chicken salad, and on my second break, I took a shower and finally got dressed. I also watched a little bit of the reveal stream for the death knight and demon hunter cards for Cataclysm. I had a lot more follow-up requests come in via chat than normal today, so while I didn't have a lot of calls, I also didn't get through as many groups as I would have liked. At least our workload this week is lower than normal.

After work, we put on our multiple coats for the subway to Santucci's. Karly Moon declared this week to be "fire horse" themed after the Chinese new year, which meant a lot of questions about horses, plus identifying a few songs about fire in the music round. We did pretty good at the latter, but overall it was a weaker performance than usual for us. We might have gotten third place, unless I'm misremembering?

As soon as I got home, John was again interested in hanging out on the bed, so I napped with him in the office until after midnight. I got up to do the "Love is in the Air" dungeon in WoW before bed, but one thing led to another (by which I mean I ended up watching random videos online) and now it's 3 AM. Hopefully my nap means that I'll still be refreshed enough to get up as early as I want in the morning.

2025

Monday: a figurative Friday without Julie. After my work shift, I had some of the chili for dinner, and I think I must have played some more The Roottrees are Dead. Might have finished the base game today, I think? I was supposed to go to the gym, but I made do with just a bunch of squats at various points around the day. In the evening, I managed to kick John out of the bedroom for the first time in a couple of days, and I brought Mim in so she could have some privacy for a while. I eventually fell asleep after playing on my phone until too late.

2024

Saturday: although Saturdays can be rough because they demand more of me in terms of chat support, the latitude with which I can approach my projects makes up for it. Still trying to coordinate the FAM cruise for next month. For brunch today, Julie made eggs, hash, and toast, which I ate early enough that I just had some chips and cheese for lunch. Once I was done working, we had the leftover veggie pasta, and we continued our Poirot marathon. (Tonight, we finally saw again the episode in which five people wearing Commedia dell'arte costumes are the main suspects in the murder of their sixth.) I couldn't focus very much, so the only thing of note I accomplished today was to break into the new bag of cat food and refill the front room stockpile, and the cats were all very excited. Julie, meanwhile, has finished her 1990s-themed puzzle and moved on to a challenging-looking rainbow-spectrum butterfly puzzle. To give myself the best opportunity to make progress on my projects tomorrow morning, I'm going to go to bed early tonight, I think.

2023

Friday: I had planned to make meatball pasta after work, but Julie wanted to use up the rest of the asparagus from Sunday, so she cooked this simple buffalo chicken and rice combo to go with it. Easy, and yet it tastes fantastic. Always kind of feels like we're getting away with something when she makes it. After playing Civ VI in the evening, I finished my night watching an in-depth Disco Elysium playthrough.